[253] MTSU Closes Dec. 24-Jan. 2 for the Holidays

(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU will be closed from Christmas Eve (Friday, Dec. 24) until Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, for the holidays, university officials announced. All campus offices will be closed during this time. The holiday closures will include the James E. Walker Library, James Union Building, Campus Recreation Center and Keathley University Center. Also, no food service will be available.MTSU offices will be open from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Jan. 3. Campus Rec, KUC and JUB will reopen at 7 a.m. Jan. 3. MTSU undergraduate, graduate and transfer students and faculty are in the midst of a one-month winter break between semesters. Spring semester classes will begin on Thursday, Jan. 13.

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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree — the only one in Tennessee — as a model program. Recently, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.